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How to beat the Tigers

Yes, we can beat the Tigers, and no, we ain't headed that-away. The way to beat the Tigers has been pointed out by one man who has studied every single suicide terrorist attack, suicide bomber and suicide terrorist organisation on the planet from 1980 to 2003, paying considerable attention to the LTTE.

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The death of Vasantha Karalliedde: A slice of childhood lost

Nostalgia for one's childhood is a particularly powerful emotion for it embodies a search for lost innocence. Those were the days before the fall, before one's eyes were violently prised open to the sordid realities of life. Such a sense of bitter-sweet nostalgia seized me when I heard the news of the sudden death of Vasantha Karalliedde our childhood neighbour, I discovered after his death that he was only nine years my senior but when one has known somebody from the time one has been a toddler that gap can be intimidating even in one's adulthood.

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The Rajpal Abeynayake Column: Ranil's bugle call to the nation is with a siren

In Greek mythology, Scylla and Charybdis were two temptresses that lured seafarers to their deaths by their singing. Hence, the derivation of the word siren. When he holds onto a siren, Ranil Wickremesinghe thinks he is a tempter, or better still a temptress in the manner of the original two sirens. When he bends his body like Beckham, and holds onto that siren, he can hardly conceal the hope that these sirens will toot until they burst, heralding LTTE orgies of bloodletting on Sinhala civilians.

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